1830.] 



Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Devonshire, fyc. 



729 



LANCASHIRE. By the last report of the Man- 

 chester and Sal ford Bank for Savings up to Novem- 

 ber 20, 1829, it appears there had been received 

 239,791?. 17s. lid. from 14,265 depositors, as ex- 

 hibited in the classification of single deposits. 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. The second exhibi- 

 tion of the Nottingham Florist and Horticultural 

 Society for this season, lately attracted a very nu- 

 merous company. The display of tulips was large, 

 and of a transcendant quality, such as in the 

 opinion of judges had never before been witnessed 

 in Nottingham. There was also a considerable por- 

 tion of green-house and stove plants exhibited in 

 great perfection, and an excellent supply of fruits 

 and vegetables ; strawberries, in particular, were re- 

 markably fine. The specimens produced of keeping 

 apples excited particular attention table fruit, in 

 the Aromatic Pippin, being shown in as great per- 

 fection as in the summer or autumn. 



DEVONSHIRE By the accounts of Plymouth 

 workhouse for last year, (the particulars of which are 

 left open for the inspection of every individual rate- 

 payer) it appears that the sum of 11,516;. 16s. 5if. 

 was expended. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. That rare bird the stork 

 (Ardea Ciconia, Lin.) was shot, eight miles up the 

 Trent, on the 6th of this month. The length of 

 this specimen, from the point of its bill to the end 

 of the tail, is three feet six inches ; and its breadth, 

 from tip to tip, is six feet four inches. The bill is 

 of a fine red colour, and its length from the tip to 

 the corners of the mouth is seven inches ; the legs 

 and bare part of the thighs are also of the same co- 

 lour; the former below the knees measure ten 

 inches, and the latter five. The plumage is of a dull 

 white, except the quills, greater coverts, and some 

 of the scapulars, which are black ; the eyes are dark 

 and full, the orbits bare of feathers, and of a dusky 

 reddish hue ; the feathers near the breast, like those 

 of the heron, are long and pendulous. The above 

 specimen is now in the possession of Mr. R. Dunn, 

 Hull. Lincoln Mercury. 



WARWICKSHIRE. The first grand public 

 meeting of the Birmingham Political Union for 

 Parliamentary Reform took place May 17. Not 

 less than from 18 to 20,000 persons were assembled, 

 marching two deep, headed by the members of the 

 council; the sight was one of the most imposing 

 that can be conceived ; not less than 80,000 persons 

 having witnessed the promenade. The Report was 

 read which did not denounce a constitutional Re- 

 form, but merely a declaration advocating the pro- 

 priety of demanding what the Law clearly acknow- 

 ledged Rights under which their forefathers were 

 a powerful and happy people, and which it was not 

 dangerous for them to enjoy , and laws which granted 

 equal privileges and protection to the rich and poor, 

 with the exception, indeed, of those grubs and ca- 

 terpillars who now live and fatten upon the poverty 

 of the people. The declaration was carried and 

 several resolutions passed in consequence, and a 

 vote of thanks to the Council. Notwithstanding 

 the immense quantity of persons assembled, in half 

 an hour after the business was over, the populace 

 dispersed to their own houses, and the streets of 

 Birmingham exhibited the same tranquillity as on 

 any other day. 



Grand entertainments have been given at Strat- 



ford-upon-Avon in honour of Shakespeare similar 



to the celebrated Jubilee displayed by Garrick in 



1709: they wf-re most numerously attended. 



M. M. New Scries. -Vol. IX. No. 54. 



CHESHIRE. We announced several weeks ago 

 that a slight improvement in the silk trade was 

 perceptible. But we were well aware how preca- 

 rious was that gleam of comparative prosperity, 

 and how doubtful was its continuance. We would 

 direct attention to the subjoined table of the import 

 of foreign wrought silk and silk goods, abstracted 

 from the Custom House returns. The import will 

 be found to amount to nearly one quarter of a mil- 

 lion sterling in the short space of two months ! 

 Manufactured silk goods imported during the months 

 of March and April, 1830. 



Silk goods, ad valorem 

 India piece goods 

 Bandannoes . 



Tulle lace 

 Thrown silk . 



91 ,470 

 17.780 

 21,270 

 2,877 

 93,648 



1,227,045 

 Macclesfield Courier and Herald, May 8. 



NORFOLK. An address has been signed by the 

 magistrates relative to the great inconvenience of 

 holding the Lent assizes at Thetford, thus restrict- 

 ing the populous city of Norwich to one gaol de- 

 livery in the year. Copies of the address have been 

 sent to the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State, 

 and to each of the Judges. A petition on the same 

 subject to the Lord Chancellor* has been resolved 

 on by the Common Council, and also a petition to 

 the House of Commons, praying that the punish- 

 ment of death may be remitted in all cases except 

 murder, arson, burglaries, highway-robberies, and 

 offences, attended with violence, and also praying 

 such effectual ameliorations in the Laws, that the 

 penalties for offences may be "in accordance with 

 strict justice, worthy of a Christian country !" 



OXFORDSHIRE.-An emigration committee 

 has been formed at Bicester, for the purpose of ena- 

 bling the poor of Bicester Market End to emigrate 

 to North America. The following are the terms 

 offered by the committee in their printed notice ; 

 " The sum of 14/. will be given to a man, his wife, 

 and six children ; and the same proportion for a 

 greater or lesser number ; to a single man, 81. ; to 

 a widower, having children, the same as a man, his 

 wife, and family. The money will be paid as soon 

 as the parties get on board at Liverpool, and every 

 expense of conveyance and provision paid by the 

 committee, from the time of their leaving Bicester 

 until they shall be landed at New York. Those 

 who choose to emigrate must leave Bicester for 

 Liverpool on Monday next, May 24th." Mr.Talton, 

 a respectable tailor of Mixbury, Oxon, has this 

 week sold the whole of his effects, with the inten- 

 tention of emigrating with his wife and family to 

 America. County Chronicle. 



* Mr. E. Newton, one of the speakers on the sub- 

 ject, observed, that it was a maxim that there was 

 no wrong without a right. It had not unfrequently 

 occurred that persons had been committed to prison 

 and kept in confinement far eleven months, and 

 upon being brought to trial they had been ac- 

 quitted ! To no power however could they appeal 

 for the restitution of character ! If a person was im- 

 prisoned for suc-h a period barely upon the suspicion 

 of crime, his character was blasted in the eyes of the 

 world, and to what quarter was he to go for right 

 against such a wrong ? He was surprised this in- 

 convenience had been suffered to remain so long; 

 it was useless to talk of improvement of the laws, 

 it was useless to listen to theoretical principles for 

 the improvement of prison discipline, whilst they 

 were thus deprived of the practical means of car- 

 rying those measures into effect. 

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